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Research Organisations - Tanzania (42)

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• Agricultural Research Institute , Tanzania (ARI) - Muheza town

  ARI – Mlingano was established in 1934 with the objective to conduct research for improvement of sisal yield. Since then Mlingano has remained a household name for sisal growers. Nearly all sisal varieties grown in the country were developed at Mlingano. At present Mlingano has a collection of over 120 varieties of sisal (the largest collection in the world) For users of soil information ARI – Mlingano is always the first place to consult in matters related to natural resource management, soil and land resources and fertilizer use technology. Nearly all activities in the country related to land evaluation and land use planning, fertilizer recommendations, agro ecological zones and soil analysis have had a connection with ARI – Mlingano.

• Agricultural Research Institute, Ilonga - Kilosa

• Agricultural Research Institute, Uyole - Mbeya

• Animal Disease Research Institute (ADRI) - Dar es Salaam

• AVRDC - Regional Center for Africa (AVRDC - RCA) - Arusha

  Established in Arusha, Tanzania in 1992, AVRDC's Regional Center for Africa (RCA) is mandated to conduct vegetable research, training and information services for the benefit of national research programs in Africa.

• Centro de Investigacion Agricola Tropical, Tanzania - Arusha

• DAI PESA (DAI PESA) - Iringa

• Department of Research and Development (DRD) - Dar es Salaam

  The Department of Research and Development (DRD) of Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS), emerged from the former Department of Research and Training (DRT) which with effect from July 1998, training activities were assigned to a newly formed Department of Training and Institutions (DTI). DRD took over research activities which the outgone DRT adopted from Tanzania Agricultural Research Organisation (TARO) and Tanzania Livestock Research Organisation (TALIRO) at time of their dissolution in 1988. DRD is one of the four divisions under the MAC. It is responsible for coordinating and conducting research in crops, livestock, socioeconomics, agroforestry, soil and water management and agricultural engineering.

• District Agriculture and Livestock Development Office (DALDO) - Hanang

• District Agriculture and Livestock Development Office (DALDO) - Arumeru

• Family Alliance for Development Cooperation (FADECO) - KARAGWE

  FADECO is involved in on-farm agricultural research with farmers, transfer of appropriate technologies in agriculture and Information dissemination using appropriate ICTs. FADECO has specilaized in post harvest agricultural technologies and value addition initiatives. It helps farmers to add value through preservation, processing and marketing. FADECO collaborates with Agricultural Research institutes in country and outside the country, to develop solutions for the farmers. FADECO operates a Question and Answer service to famers in collaboration with CTA and Ask-FAO.

• Forestry Training Institute, Olmotonyi (FTI) - Arusha

• Highlands Seed Growers Ltd - Mbeya

• INADES Formation Tanzania (INADES) - Dodoma

  IF Tanzania veut une société où les petits agriculteurs (femmes et hommes) seront organisés et posséderont un véritable pouvoir pour : * Contrôler leurs ressources naturelles et les canaux de distribution de leurs produits. * Devenir un pouvoir de négociation capable de proposer une politique saine afin d'influencer et développer des politiques nationales, concernant leur propre développement. * Comprendre et mettre en pratique le concept 'Genre et Développement' afin de réduire les problèmes de Genre dans leurs sociétés. * Etre reconnus et respectés en tant que paysans. * Prendre des mesures préventives pour contrôler l'expansion du VIHS/SIDA dans leurs sociétés.

• Information and Documentation unit - Dar es Salaam

  The Information and Documentation Unit (IDU) acquires, processes, stores and disseminates information on agriculture and its related fields, in order to fulfill its responsibility of keeping current and accurate information that is meaningful to researchers, extension agents, trainer, farmers and other relevant users in Tanzania. Scientific publishing, library services, current awareness services, inquiry services and compilation, management and dissemination of agricultural databases are among the routine services offered by IDU. To support the unit's Self-Help Fund, a token fee is charged for some of the services and products such as photocopying and binding of books. The unit liaises with other national, regional and international organisations and institutions involved in handling agricultural information.

• Institute of Marine Sciences. University of Dar es Salaam - Zanzibar

• Mbegu Technologies - Moshi

• Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute - Dar-es-Salaam

• MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE & FOOD SECURITY - Dar es Salaam

• Ministry of Agriculture - Plant Health Services (MAFS-PHS) - Dar es Salaam

  The Plant Health Services (PHS) is under the Directorate of the Crop Development in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS). PHS is located within the MAFS headquarters, Kilimo Road, Temeke Dar es Salaam. PHS is entrusted with the following major functions: 1. Management of outbreaks pests such as quelea, locusts, armyworms and rodents;Promotion of Integrated pest management (IPM), Biological control of plant pests and advisory services; Plant import and export control (Plant quarantine and phytosanitary services); Promotion of post harvest pest management techniques and enforcement of produce inspection legislation; 2. Pesticide registration, and Control

• Ministry of Agriculture, Tanzania - Dar es Salaam

• MINISTRY OF LIVESTOCK DEVELOPMENT (MLD) - Dar es Salaam

  Ministry of Livestock Development of the Government of Tanzania

• Ministry of Natural Resources Tourism and Environment, Tanzania - Dar Es Salem

• Naliendele Agricultural Research Station - Mtwara

• NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT COUNCIL (NEMC) - Dar es Salaam

  National Environment Management Council (NEMC) is the leading technical advisory, co-ordinating and regulatory agency responsible for the protection of the environmental and sustainable use of the natural resources in Tanzania. It is responsible in consultation, collaboration and partnership with other entities concerned with environmental matters and the public at large, for facilitating and promoting such measures as necessary to help achieve an important quality of lives for Tanzanians.

• NATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE, MPWAPWA (NLRI MPWAPWA) - Mpwapwa

  The Mission of the Institute is to ensure that livestock resource is developed and managed sustainably in collaboration with other stakeholders for improved human livelyhoods

• National Root Crops Co-ordinator. Sugarcane Research Institute, Tanzania - Kibaha

• Plant Health Services. Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Tanzania - Dar Es Salaam

• Root Crops Section. Naliendele Agricultural Research Institute - Mtwara

• Selian Agricultural Research Institute (SARI) - Arusha

• Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) - Morogoro

  The university has 3 faculties (Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine) and 2 institutes namely the Institute of Continuing Education and the Development Studies Institute. The university offers undergraduate training leading to the award of degrees in Agriculture, Horticulture, Animal Science, Home Economics and Nutrition, Food Science and Technology, Agronomy, Agricultural Engineering, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine. The university also offers training leading to awards of master of sciences and PhD in the respective fields of Agricutlure, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine.

• Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology - Dar es Salaam

• Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre (TFNC) - Dar es Salaam

  Mission · Formulate, initiate and promote development policies and plans regulations and legislation for improvement of nutritional status of Tanzania community. · Promote nutrition of the socio-economical deprived and nutritionally vulnerable groups. · Promote community participation in managing and controlling nutritional problems in the country. · Promote applied and basic nutrition and research · Promote private sector involvement in nutrition intervention.

• Tanzanian Coffee Research Institute - Moshi

• Tea Research Institute of Tanzania - Dar es Salaam

• Tengeru Horticultural Research and Training Institute (HORTI) - Tengeru

  The history of Tengeru dates back to 1942, when a group of Polish refugees settled there during the 2nd World War, starting a dairy and beef cattle farm. In 1952 the Ministry of Agriculture took over the land and established a research and training institute. The research component was destined to become the Nothern Research Centre (NRC), specialising in coffee and agricultural mechanisation. Seed testing begun there in 1961, and two years later the Seed Testing Laboratory became a member of the International Seed Testing Association.

• THE SOKOINE NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY - Morogoro

  Sokoine National Agricultural Library (SNAL) is an academic institute of the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) in Tanzania. It is situated 3 km from the centre of Morogoro municipality, which is about 200 km west of Dar es Salaam. Established by an Act of Parliament no. 21 of 1991, SNAL serves both as the university as well as a national agricultural library of Tanzania. It has a branch Library at SUA’s Solomon Mahlangu Campus, the former ANC freedom fighters camp. SNAL’s mission is towards supporting information needs of the teaching, research, extension and consultancy activities of the university as well as other groups of people engaged in agricultural related activities in the country and beyond.

• Tobacco Research Institute of Tanzania (TORITA) - TABORA

• Tropical Pesticides Research Institutes (TPRI) - Arusha

• Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Research Institute of Tanzania - Tanga

• Ukiriguru Agricultural Research Institute - Mwanza

  Ukiriguru Agricultural Research Institute is the oldest research station and the main cotton research centre in Tanzania. As a Native authority seed farm, it was opened in December 1930, and agricultural research activities began in November 1932 with the selection of varieties of sorghum, groundnuts and cotton, with greater emphasis given to the latter. The empire cotton growing corporation, at the request of the Ministry of Agriculture, began some research at Ukiriguru in 1939. When the Tanzanian Research services were reorganized into four zones in 1956, Ukiriguru became the centre for the Western Zone which consisted of Mwanza, Singida, Shinyanga Tabora, Mara, Kagera and Kigoma Regions. A formal programme for training of Junior agricultural staff was established in 1939; but the research and training wing were in 1974 split into separate units under a director and a principal respectively

• University of Dar es Salaam - Dar es Salaam

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